A DELUGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 664, 15 November 1909, Page 7

A DELUGE.

« GREAT DAMAGE DONE IN JAMAICA. LOSS OF LIFE. ISLAND OF HAITI ALSO SUITERS. ~ (By ToltKtaph.-I'rMß AinoHallnn.-OoDrrlßhU (Eco. Novombcr 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, Hovomber 13. A hurricane, accompanied with a deluge causing great floods, has caused huge destruction to proporty and some loss of life in the British Island of Jamaica (West Indies) and in the neighbouring Island of Haiti, comprising tho negro Republics of Haiti and San Domingo. Owing:to tho breaking of the cables, no news had boon received from Jamaica for five days. Prior to the interruption, great floods in the island were roported. ■ Nows is now to hand showing the great extent of the calamity. Damago in Jamaica One Million, For some weeks the rainfall in Jamaica has averaged ten inches daily, resulting in floods' and land-Blides, inundating the lower lands causing havoc in tho plantations. The damage in tho capital, Kingston, and its neighbourhood is estimated at .£30,000, and a number of people have been drowned'. A cablegram from -Kingston assosces tho damage in Jamaica as a whole at a million storling. Tho Kingston waterworks have been destrojed, and railways and tunnels have been blocked owing to land-slides. Soveral.bridges have been destroyed. One-third of the banana plantations on tho northorn side of .Tam&ioa have been ruined. Tho roads are impassable, and many villages aro isolated. Tho town of Annotta Bay, on the north coast, is flooded to a depth of three feet. Calamities Fund Will Bo Swallowed. It is estimated that tho Jamaican Government's Calamities Fund, amounting to .£IOO,OOO sterling, will bo exhausted in repairing bridges, roads, and railways. Haiti and San Domingo have also been devastated by flood, and soveral small towns are in ! minß. Many lives have been lost in Haiti, I which has been further damaged by an earthquake.